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MPR News with Angela Davis

Angela Davis MPR News Podcast
Angela Davis MPR News Podcast
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Conversations about life in Minnesota and how the state is changing, weekdays at 9 a.m. Call us at 651-227-6000.

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Power Pairs: Listen to a new series featuring prominent Minnesotans in a close relationship. Maybe they're siblings, a married couple or best friends. You may know of them separately but they reveal a whole new side of themselves when Angela Davis sits them down together. Listen to the interviews here.

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The influence of social media on our lives

The influence of social media on our lives

It’s only been 16 years since social media entered our lives. But in those 16 years, they have moved from the margins of culture to dominating the news cycle when they went down a few weeks ago. Was this shift inevitable? What influence does social media have on our lives?
by Angela Davis and Susan Davis

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The heartache and grief of losing your parents' language

The heartache and grief of losing your parents' language

MPR Host Angela Davis talks about the trauma and grief of losing an ancestral language and how people are working to preserve and reclaim their heritage language.
by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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The cost of a bad boss

The cost of a bad boss

Bad bosses cost everyone — the worker, the organization, the larger economy, everyone. Host Angela Davis spoke with Michelle Singletary of The Washington Post and MPR News correspondent Chris Farrell on the high cost of a bad boss.
by Angela Davis, Susan Davis and Carly Quast

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Meet Minnesota’s new poet laureate Gwen Westerman

Meet Minnesota’s new poet laureate Gwen Westerman

Host Angela Davis talks to Gwen Westerman about poetry, Dakota history, quilting and how she’ll use her new role to draw attention to underrepresented poets in the state. 
by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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Checking in with essential workers

Checking in with essential workers

Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, essential workers still face challenges. MPR News host Angela Davis checks in with three essential workers.
by Angela Davis, Samantha Matsumoto and Maja Beckstrom

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The art of listening

The art of listening

Member drive is our chance to thank you for listening — and to remind you why you listen. And it’s your chance to support our work. Since our entire enterprise of making radio depends on listening, we thought we’d take this opportunity to consider what it means to listen with intention and compassion. 
by Angela Davis and Susan Davis

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Talking music with The Current’s Jim McGuinn

Talking music with The Current’s Jim McGuinn

MPR News host Angela Davis talks with The Current’s Jim McGuinn about fall concerts and reconsidering the songs you used to dislike.
by Angela Davis and Samantha Matsumoto

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Checking in with Black-owned businesses

Checking in with Black-owned businesses

MPR News host Angela Davis talks with Black business owners about whether more support materialized during the racial reckoning following George Floyd’s murder.
by Angela Davis, Maja Beckstrom and Samantha Matsumoto

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The benefits of intergenerational friendship

The benefits of intergenerational friendship

MPR News host Angela Davis and MPR News reporter Nina Moini met years ago while working in TV. They’re 20 years apart in age — but alike in so many other ways. Angela and Nina share their warm friendship with listeners and are joined by a researcher who digs into the benefits of having much older or younger friends.
by Angela Davis and Samantha Matsumoto

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Poetry for and from the pandemic

The new anthology “A 21st Century Plague: Poetry from a Pandemic” collects the poems of writers from all over the country as they grapple with the ongoing quarantine and the losses from COVID-19. MPR News host Angela Davis speaks with four Minnesota poets included in the anthology about writing through the pain and stress.   
by Angela Davis and Susan Davis

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